Esalen® Massage Professional Practitioner Certification Training

Esalen® Massage Professional Practitioner Certification Training With Dean Marson & Deborah Anne Medow

April 26-28, 2024

June 21-23, 2024

July 26-28, 2024

August 23-25, 2024

September 27-29, 2024

Esalen Massage is a diverse and unique style of bodywork developed at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in the mid 1960’s.  For over fifty years, Esalen Massage has continued to grow and evolve, reflecting its continued quest to integrate body, mind, emotions, and spirit.  Using the ‘trademark’ Esalen long strokes that provide a sense of wholeness, integration, and deep relaxation, Esalen practitioners approach with the idea of ‘being with’ instead of ‘working on’ the client.  As the quality of contact and touch increases, the spirit of Esalen massage both inspires and fuses with each practitioner’s personal style of being with the body, resulting in a specialized session, creating an atmosphere of peace and harmony, an inner space where natural healing can more easily occur.

This course offers a comprehensive training for certified massage and bodywork practitioners who wish to add the Esalen philosophy and signature approach to their professional repertoire. 

The training includes:

-Basic principles of Esalen Massage

-Developing the skills of centering, presence, and awareness

-Deepening the art of sensing, while both giving and receiving

-Attention to connections and addressing the whole Being

-Passive movement and three-dimensional touch

-Tools and principles for specific areas, e.g., back, shoulders, neck

-Energy awareness and interacting with the energy layer of contact

-Self-help exercises for practitioners and their clients

Sessions will include one or more of the following:

-Shared exercises on and off the massage tables

-Paired exercises of hands-on practice

-Exercises designed to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others

-Body dynamics with written documentation of specified sessions

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Cost:

$495 per weekend session.  Sessions meet every 4-8 weeks. To enroll, the first and last payment of $990, non-refundable will be due by January 5, 2024. There is limited seating. After completing the course of instruction, participants will have received complete instructions and practice in giving an effective Esalen massage. To receive an EMBA Esalen massage certificate, each student must complete one full Esalen massage evaluation session on a specific Esalen Massage Teacher and document 15 additional non-paid Esalen massages, after the course of instruction. 

In addition, a $150 certification fee must be paid to the Esalen Massage and Bodywork Association. This training is for practitioners certified in a massage/bodywork modality by a state-approved accredited school.

Teachers:

Dean Marson is a Senior Instructor of Esalen® Massage who has been teaching workshops and trainings at Esalen Institute and internationally for over 40 years.  He incorporates a variety of somatic methods as well as the essence of yoga and meditation practices into his eclectic approach to teaching the art of massage.

Deborah Anne Medow is a Senior Instructor of Esalen® Massage and has been practicing and teaching massage, meditation, movement, yoga, and related healing disciplines at the Esalen Institute and internationally for the past 55 years. She enjoys infusing her massage classes and trainings with a bit of humor, while integrating her varied trainings in and experiences with bodywork, yoga, dance, and life. Over the years, both Dean and Deborah have been deeply involved with the development and evolution of Esalen Massage and the Esalen Massage School.

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